Hello Everyone! I know I have been MIA for the past week or so. Sorry that I haven't updated, I had to study for some finals for college and it really sucked. They threw me off of my mind path, so I hope this chapter is satisfying, and I promise I will get back into my groove here soon. I hope you enjoy and thank you all for reviewing! I love that you guys find this story awesome! So here you are, a new and wonderful chapter!! Tell me what ya think. Enjoy!

Chapter 16

"Okay, here it goes." I said. I took a deep breathe. This was going to be the hardest thing I had ever done, but I felt I owed it to Logan to tell him.

"When I graduated high school, I went off to college to become a doctor. While I was there, I met a few people and we became fast friends. One in particular though, caught my eye. His name was Jason, and he was everything to me. I felt like, I felt things that I had never felt before. Like love, respect," I paused, "Happiness. We were together for two years. My best friend Sarah and her boyfriend Ryan would go on double dates with me and Jason, and we were all so happy. We told each other everything, except I left out the part of me being different. It wasn't until a month or so after our two year anniversary when I received the biggest shock of my life. A few months before, I found out that Sarah was a mutant. I thought I had been the only one. Sarah was able to breathe underwater, and she was able to manipulate it also. She had a way with creatures that lived in the water. We went to Florida for Spring Break and, a group of dolphins swam by. Sarah decided to see them up close and personal. If I didn't know any better I would say she could have been a dolphin. I used to call her Flipper. It was an inside joke between us. She was terrified that I knew, but when she found out that I was a mutant also, we became even closer, determined to never let anything happen to either one of us. I came home one day after classes to find the apartment a complete mess. Sarah was nowhere to be found and I was worried that something happened to her. I picked up the phone and was about to call 911 when I heard Jason's voice from behind me. He told me that he had found out about Sarah, and that he had taken care of her." I said. I zoned out into an alternate world, reliving that horrible day.

"What did you do to her?" I demanded. Jason slowly walked over to me with a smirk on his face.

"I did what I had to do. We cannot have scum like that walking around here acting like they are one of us." he snarled.

"Where is she!" I yelled.

"She's being taken care of right now, as we speak."

"Where!" I said. I could feel my eyes getting darker and I knew that Jason noticed too.

"She's downstairs. They are disposing of her right now." he smiled.

I ran out of my apartment and down the stairs. I pushed people out of my way as I tried to make it before she was gone. I made it to the door, but was blocked by an office of the law.

"I'm sorry ma'am. You can't go any farther." he said.

"No, you don't understand. That is my friend, you have no right to be doing this! Let her go!" I yelled.

"I'm sorry lady but there is nothing we can do. We have to follow orders."

"What orders! To dispose someone just because they are different? Let her go now!" I yelled.

"Katriana!" I heard someone yell. I turned to see Ryan being hauled off by two army men.

"Ryan!" I yelled. I tried to get past the guard, but he wouldn't budge. "Where are they taking you!" I yelled.

"Don't worry about it. Just go, quickly before they get you too!" he yelled.

I watched as he was thrown harshly into the back of a truck. The doors slammed and I saw Ryan and Sarah, looking back at me as they drove away. Tears made their way from my eyes and down my cheeks.

"They will never have the opportunity to ever hurt you again." said Jason from behind me. I turned to glare at him only to find a satisfied smirk on his face.

I left him and ran back to my room, packing everything I could imagine. I loaded everything, along with Sarah's things into my car.

"Kat what are you doing?" asked Jason as I loaded up my car.

"Leaving. I thought that even a incompetent idiot such as you could figure that out." I spat.

I was slammed up against my car, Jason's hand against my throat.

"Don't you even think, for one second that you can just leave me. I hold power over you, power you don't even know about. I know about your past Katriana, I know everything about you, down to your beautiful black shined wings. I know what you are, and I intend on keeping it that way. No one will ever know what you are, no one will ever love you the way I love you, and no one will ever lay a finger on you. You are mine, and will always be mine. I will always find you. No matter where you run, I will find you." he whispered into my face.

My eyes became so dark, they turned black. I grabbed Jason with my mind and sent him flying into a dumpster not to far from my car. I slammed the lid shut and locked it. I got into my car and left, leaving whatever feelings I had known behind.

"I never saw any of them again." I said, tears falling into steady streams as they ran down my face.

Logan grabbed me and brought me into a hug. He laid his hand on my head as it rested against his chest. We sat there for awhile, me just shedding tears and Logan trying to wisk them away.

"I'm sorry. I haven't cried like that in years." I said with a laugh. "Oh look at your shirt." I said. I wiped his shirt where my tears had soaked in. He grabbed my hand and lowered it.

"Don't worry about it." he said. "So that's the reason you don't want to get to close."

I only nodded. "Ever since Jason, what he said to me, about knowing who I was, saying that no one could love me more than he did, that no one would ever love me; I guess it just stayed with me after all these years. I never really thought about it until today, when I knew what I was feeling."

I looked into his eyes and saw sadness.

"Why do you look at me like that?" I asked.

Logan only shook his head and turned away.

"It's nothing." he replied.

"Logan I know that something bothers you and I know that you won't let anyone in also."

Logan turned towards me when I said that. Anger was filled in his eyes and I knew I would get what I wanted.

"You know nothing about me. Unlike you, I can't remember my past. I know nothing of who I am, I know nothing of the life I lived before all of this!" he exclaimed. He sighed. "I would give anything, to know something about me. About who I was, who I used to be." he said sadly.

"You were a caring and generous man." I whispered. "You gave me courage to face what evil laid ahead of me. You cared for me after everything that you had been through. You came back, knowing that something wasn't right." I looked up to him to see him looking at me entranced. "You came back for me."

Logan sat down on the bed. He dropped his head into his hands and sighed. I got up and crouched down in front of him.

"Logan, if after everything that you had been through in that horrible place, if after everything that had happened to you, if you were willing to come back and save a helpless girl who was scared more than life itself, then I suppose that you were a great man. A man who was caring towards others, and a man who had a good heart."

Somehow, the conversation had turned from me telling him that I had feelings for him, towards who Logan was as a person. I felt like I was intruding on something that I shouldn't be. I stood up and began walking towards the door, when a hand grabbed my wrist, stopping me in my tracks.

I looked back to see Logan looking back at me with sincerity in his eyes, along with hope. He pulled me back towards him and placed me in his lap so we were facing each other. He wrapped me into a hug and it felt as if he never wanted to let me go. I heaved a great sigh and closed my eyes, enveloping myself in his scent and the feeling that I longed for the most, safety. He pulled away from me and stared into my eyes. He looked as if were searching for something within me that he thought I possessed.

"So," he whispered huskily, "You remember me from that long ago huh?" he asked.

I smiled. He may have been lost, but he sure did have his cockiness in check.

"Well, it is kind of hard to forget someone who saved your life. Even if he may be old." I smiled.

"I may look old, but I look sexy as hell." he said.

I laughed. For the first time in almost two days, I laughed and he gave me one of his signature smirks.

"Yes, well you may look sexy as hell, but you're still old." I said.

He sighed with a smirk and fell backwards onto the bed, taking me with him. I straddled him, as he lay on the bed, staring into my eyes. I leaned over, propping my hands on each side of his head as my hair fell, framing my face.

He began to lean into me. His face coming closer and closer to my face; his lips coming closer and closer to mine. We were inches apart from each other, when suddenly he backed off, laying back down onto the bed. A look of disappointment must have flashed through my eyes because he smiled and brushed some hair behind my ears, while he gently stroked them as he pulled away, causing me to shiver.

"Stay with me tonight?" he whispered to me. I looked into his eyes and found longing in them, but I knew he was holding himself back, for my sake, and that alone made me agree.

"Yes." I whispered just as softly.

I climbed off of him and lay down, his arms wrapping around me, pulling me closer into him. I lay my head on his chest, hearing his heartbeat as my eyes slowly started to close. A light feather of a kiss placed on my temple was the last thing I registered as I fell into the deep recesses of sleep.